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Best Classic Documentaries?


Salesman - 10/10

Already a Top 3 -- (Place de la Republique, Seven Up).. If you have any recommendations, getting a great snapshot of time on video, all the little things, I'll watch it




And it's on YouTube in full
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-utsxnUfXM

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The Thin Blue Line

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Shoah

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The Civil War. Ken Burns.
ANY DOCUMENTARY WITH KEN BURNS's name on it is the BEST!

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just watched "Chronicle of a Summer" - it's a great one!

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Titticut Follies (1967)

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I think I saw that... The guy whose talking about nuclear war but with ways we adapt.

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I'm not sure what you're referring to there but this was filmed inside an actual mental asylum. Pretty disturbing stuff.

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Patient: How did the first Great War start? Because of a demand by the Austrian Hungary Dynasty for the execution of an accomplice who already was sentenced to life imprisonment in, um, in Serbia. Yet they demanded a prosecution for execution for Austria-Hungary laws! What does that mean? They wanted execution! The war was fought over execution! The same execution that is going on in Vietnam; over making an execution over these natives of Vietnam. They're not Vietcong, they're not communists. Whatever the American Government doesn't like, they use the - they foist on this term "communist". Because I speak the way I do, you gonna call me a communist? I'm not a communist! Even though, I have communist affiliations. Communist really means Community-ist. That's what we are if you want to call us communists because we are FOR our community. We like the well-standards. We're for the people. And that's what they call these uh... what do they call? these people that talk about a new matter... Agitators! We agitate... do we start these troubles? I'm a communist because I expound my views about the world conditions? It's the duty of every citizen to expound his views or her views of what goes on in the world. If more of them expounded their views about the conditions in the world, less chaotic conditions would exist. And the nuclear war is gonna happen not because - not what i say, not what all these war-mungers or peace-mungers blab about because all throughout the ages you will find: every time a new weapon was put out they say its the end of war. They said the submarine was the end of war, what happened? The gas masks put an end to war. What happened? They got masks. What about these submarines that are supposed to control the seas? What happened? They got airplanes that drop def-charges. You look through the ages and you find new weapon is put out, somebody puts out a counter-weapon. But the nuclear weapon doesn't stop because people are stock-piling.

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Oh ok. I thought you might be quoting someone in the doco

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The Sorrow and the Pity

Maybe the best documentary I've ever seen.
One of the most memorable for sure.

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Very good.. I never saw Shoah? Did you? If so, which one is better?

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I've not seen Shoah.

The Sorrow is amazing.
It's 4 hours long but for me it was well worth it.

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I loved hearing the non-sensationalist stuff... How Germans soldiers were very nice, offering their seats, but also how women who dated German soldiers were "dealt with" after the war.

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world war 2 : the price of empire

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just saw "High School" (1969) --- everyone needs to see it, for comparison!

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Cocaine Cowboys

It's about the South American drug trade in Miami during the 1970's & 80's

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That is right up my ally

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